My priest didn't show up for confession

[HomeschoolDad]

HomeschoolDad:

Assuming Beal and Coriden are a magisterially loyal source, and not some flaky 1970s thing

It’s a pretty standard resource:

I just hadn’t heard of them before.

I came of age in the Faith during a time when you had to be skeptical of everything published after the 1950s, and when I’m confronted with authors I haven’t heard of before, my first reaction is “who are they and are they reliable?”.

 

[EugeneCharles]

I waited 45 minutes and he never showed up Someone at the church said he forgets regularly.

Sorry to hear that your priest wasn’t able to make you receive the Sacrament!

 

[Gorgias]

I came of age in the Faith during a time when you had to be skeptical of everything published after the 1950s

Well, so did I, more or less. I’m only skeptical of flannel banners in churches and weird innovations at Masses.

 

[babochka]

Yes, just remember to always doublecheck on the parish website, if possible in the latest parish bulletin.

COVID has caused changes to some churches’ schedules, and MassTimes is not always getting updated with the latest info.

It’s possible that even the parish website is not up to date. I attempted to get to Confession at the parish most convenient to me last Saturday. Confessions were listed on the website at 3pm. An usher preparing for the evening Mass told me that Confessions were now held at 10:00 am, in a different building. By this time, it was too late to get to a nearby parish, as the lines are insanely long in this area right now, with so many operations disrupted. I skipped Communion the next day and made an appointment with my regular confessor, who I had been trying to avoid.

 

[HomeschoolDad]

HomeschoolDad:

I came of age in the Faith during a time when you had to be skeptical of everything published after the 1950s

Well, so did I, more or less. I’m only skeptical of flannel banners in churches and weird innovations at Masses.

Flannel banners don’t bother me a bit. Eastern Christianity makes use of banners (though designed traditionally with iconography). I would welcome banners emblazoned with pithy Latin statements such as extra ecclesiam nulla salus and ad majorem Dei gloriam.

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Weird innovations (though the worst seems to be behind us, they died out with shag carpet and avocado kitchen appliances, more fruit of the horrible 1970s) are one of many reasons I strongly prefer the TLM.

 

[dochawk]

they died out with shag carpet and avocado kitchen appliances, more fruit of the horrible 1970s)

when we bought this house in 1990, it was still mostly avocado green–the original refrigerator, the shag carpet, the patio , the cabinets, the bathroom, the kitchen counters . . . the oven had been replaced early on, apparently, as it was harvest gold!

avocado green was more late 60s; 70s was the harvest gold. Come to think of it, my mother’s '72 chevy van was “sunset gold” . . .

Oh, and in the breakroom of Bob [heart] alisha, you can see my exact green refrigerator–down to the fading pattern that is different near the edges!

 

[HomeschoolDad]

HomeschoolDad:

they died out with shag carpet and avocado kitchen appliances, more fruit of the horrible 1970s)

when we bought this house in 1990, it was still mostly avocado green–the original refrigerator, the shag carpet, the patio , the cabinets, the bathroom, the kitchen counters . . . the oven had been replaced early on, apparently, as it was harvest gold!

avocado green was more late 60s; 70s was the harvest gold. Come to think of it, my mother’s '72 chevy van was “sunset gold” . . .

Oh, and in the breakroom of Bob [heart] alisha, you can see my exact green refrigerator–down to the fading pattern that is different near the edges!

We still have a couple of burnt orange bath towels that have actually held up quite well to be 45 years old. Their apocalypse-survival factor is right up there with cockroaches and Cher.

I think I see the bright flashing lights of the “off-topic police” in my rear-view mirror, so I’ll leave it at that. Grease for peace